a lot of what richard nixon thought -- part of the reason richard nixon thought he was right to do what he did, he assumed the presidents before him had committed the same kinds of actions. and therefore, he was arguing others have done it. why take me to task to doing what others have done? this debate which is part of a larger national debate is about what we expect of our president. even though article ii was not required to impeach richard nixon, the fact that article ii would be passed by a 28-10 margin including seven republicans was a signal that we had reached the high water mark in the imperial presidency and it was about to go down. congress realized that whether richard nixon wanted to or not, he had acted on impulses that presidents should not have in the constitution needed a little bit of help to ensure that in the executive branch did not overstep its bounds. after this, we will see a series of legislation including the surveillance act and ask regarding -- acts regarding presidential papers. acts signed by gerald ford. the american people said a note is enough. -- enough

a lot of what richard nixon thought -- part of the recent richard nixon out he was right assumedat he did, he the presidents before him had committed the same kinds of actions. and therefore, he was arguing others have done it. doingke me to task to what others have done? this debate which is part of a larger national debate is about what we expect of our president. even though article ii was not required to impeach richard nixon, the fact that article ii 28-10be passed by a margin including seven republicans was a signal that we had reached the high water mark in the imperial presidency and it was about to go down. whetherw realized that richard nixon wanted to are not, he had acted on impulses that presidents should not have in the constitution needed a little bit of help to ensure that in the executive branch did not overstep its bounds. after this, we will see a series of legislation including the surveillance act and ask regarding-- acts presidential papers. acts signed by gerald ford. the american people said a note is enough. actually, the presidency has gotten too powerful by

we will continue our programming next week as we focus on the resignation of richard nixon. 40 years later, we have a chance to look back at the house judiciary committee and the opening statements from 1974. that is next sunday at 8:00 eastern time, 5:00 for those of you on the west coast to recruit join us next sunday 8 p.m. eastern when we will feature a selection of opening statements from the house judiciary committee as they began hearings in 1974 to consider articles of impeachment against richard nixon. committee willt join us to give a behind-the-scenes account of the deliberations. you're watching american history tv. all we can, every weekend, on c-span3. >> each week, real america brings you a film that helps tell the story of the 20th century. up next, 1936 universal pictures short feature, to document the activities of the so-called g-man or fbi agents. >> there is nothing mysterious about the federal bureau of investigation. its formula is a simple one. intensive training, highly efficient personnel, plus requirements in regard to conduct, intelligence, integrity. they

confidant, richard nixon aide. accepting the blemishes them all, richard nixon expert. you see pat knew him well, advised him closely and said republicans are wasting time making history repeat itself. pat says all this impeachment talk, this is the point and robs republicans are making far more valuable points. what's more, pat says instead of looking back to the end of nixon's presidency, republicans would be wise to remember how that presidency began, against all odds. and even against all reason. pat spells it out brilliantly in the greatest comeback, how richard nixon rose from defeat to create the new majority. so pat, great book, i want to get into it. >> thank you very much. neil: i don't want to talk about the resignation as much as i want to talk about republicans wanting to revisit it on on this president, and forcing impeachment. what do you think? >> mistake. for this reason. i agree with the passion, energy and fire of sarah palin. what you listed all the things obama has done or failed to do, down th

was clearly it wasn't good enough for richard nixon to beat his opponents this is key it was the watergate thing it wasn't just good enough for him that beat his opponents he's want to destroy and that's the lion and you can say in a way that land where that land was made to determine how long this bridge situation goes because it from all appearances they sought to destroy the mayor the democratic mayor they have supported together just reported listen i was going to discuss this later over there right now fox news channel president of into this roger ailes who's and now they've got a book coming out that really apparently really attacks him i haven't read it yet he was asked in an interview today the distinction between the news and opinionated program his exact reply was i grew up in the era when dan rather hated richard nixon he was a newsman but you know what his opinion was a reaction well first of all of a lot of the you hated things i never seen it just simply isn't true it isn't really really worth discussing with i'm respected and continue respect the office of the pres

and he came into office what is true we know this from the tapes richard nixon hated dan rather and c.b.s. news that a matter of record and roger ailes was and for all of the things he's accomplished roger ailes was an operative for richard nixon use of an expected to say something like this and frankly i don't take it personally don't take it seriously do you agree with the think that the thought that fox news channel is a actual part of the republican party. you know what i'm pausing only because i want to give a thoughtful answer that i understand that argument i think it goes too far which used to say i think ailes is considers himself still a part of the republican party i think central far as he's able to that he wants his channel to be that way but i don't want to indict everybody at fox news channel because i know some of the pros there who are pretty good i don't want to dance around your question but i do do think that roger ailes would say this about him he is a very good businessman he's very smart about television and he built a network when i for one wasn't all sur

i think democrats, some of them, many of them looked at it as a way to get at richard nixon because they really didn't like the outcome of the election and didn't particularly care for him so it was in the middle of that kind of crossfire, as such, that i found myself and it was not a comfortable position to be in but one i felt that i was committed to trying to decide it on the merits. >> were you asked to play any particular role by the leadership or did you serve as a lone member of this committee, a republican, who felt that the president should face impeachment questions? >> i was never asked to play any role other than just prior to going public. in some of the private hearings, i certainly was as well prepared as any member and perhaps even better prepared than some members with some exceptions, chuck wiggins, republican, california, who was very gifted. i had memorized the senate hearings, the watergate hearings, and spent time memorizing every person who testified before the committee so when they came before our committee, i would be as well prepared as anyone to debate the iss

after that, michael called the political obituary of richard m. nixon. yone then as politically finished. he moved to new york to practice law. he went out and campaigned for barry goldwater. it looked like the republican party was dead after that where they lost 44 states to lyndon johnson. it was then i joined up with him and he started the long steady climb cl the turbulent decade we call the 1960s. he wound up at the end of the '60s raising his hand and taking the oval office as president. >> you graduated from columbia in journalism. you are writing editorials in the midwest. you pursue nixon for a job and you remind him you once caddied for him. >> i grew up in washington, d.c. i had gone out to burning tree country club for a job. i went with a friend to sit on the bench in the caddie club. they put out this plaid golf bag. i said that is the vice president's golf bag. the pro at burning tree looked at the two sad looking caddies and said you are the only guys we have. we went around with richard millhouse nixon, 18 holes. this is not arnold palmer

richard nixon as a hard man to let go of. i first, remember as a child in black and white, fuzzy television seen this odd man. he was on the ticket with general eisenhower and there was some problem of his taking some money from a secret fund. he was talking about his daughter's dog, and i thought, he's interesting. well, he never stopped being interesting. richard axel was never boring. as david mentioned he was probably as interesting in his after presidency as he was during his presidency. i chronicle in the book beginning with spiro agnew, remember spiro agnew been in some trouble, and i have said to my editor at "the new yorker," the very limited and very justly legendary william shawn said to me, what do you think of writing next? i said i just had the feeling we're going to change vice presidents and presidents within a year. this is labor day of 73, a very way out their wild thought at the time. we agreed i would write a journal, not a diary a watch of the events in the truck of them and talk about them. we didn't kno

we're talking about richard nixon all right nixon's record is for superior would you not agree than to have to with regard to racial integration sure i would have ok yeah. ok that's that's a question to actually. less so i was interested about the back to the election of sixty eight because you join x. and sixty six and you guys are just right and in sixty eight this just came out a couple years ago when the johnson library release these tapes right lyndon johnson the cia came in johnson said we get these tapes we've requested a record the nixon can put up a picture of me the young men around nixon yeah there you go we've actually recorded the nixon campaign in contact with the south vietnamese telling them throughout it don't don't yeah. here's the clip this is this is l.b.j. talking to ever doors. are. closing some of your time the lobby are going to be an amazing embassy. and pray for his murder. the prayers going back your time or whatever the second they could get or better go. back and read my. i don't know at the kept their say in the campaign that they are this is crazy. so was

a month later, richard nixon resigned. did you have a sense that it was going to happen that quickly? >> no, i thought it would go to the house and i thought the house would recommend articles of impeachment to the senate and the senate would have a trial. that was my expectation. looking at the clock, it looked like it was a way for the president to run out the clock because congress is out in the summertime. we come back in if it went over september. to the senate, the senate had rules in which it could delay it well beyond november. then you would have a new congress elected and the question would become, can the new congress take up articles that were voted by the old congress? looking at it from a gaming perspective, the president could very well have tried to run the clock out, so to speak, on the impeachment process. what happened a very key missing , tape was disclosed, and that shifted opinion on the part of the republicans, who were his staunchest defenders. forget the book that theodore white had written called

. >> richard nixon's presidency collapsed under the power of the spoken and secretly recorded word. 40 years after his resignation this is, this historianea revls more nixon surprises on decades that took, on more tapes that took him a decade to transcribe. >> there is a lot of sort of barnyard cursing, unpleasant amount of back stabbing. >> we will play the nixon tapes. later on sunday morning.7' >> osgood: a summer song after a long absence from the spotlight is what fans of sarah mclachlan have been waiting for. as anthony us, the wait is now over. >> ♪ >> it has been a while since we have heard from sarah mclachlan. >> is it scary to sort of leave your audience for a while? >> no. it is a bit scary to come back. >> reporter: but after losing her father and a break with her manager, the grammy winning singer is touring again. >> it is -- >> ahead on sunday morning, sarah mclachlan. >> >> osgood: mo rocca has a cutting edge look at man escaping. mar a that teichner talked with ledge ling, richard rink richard linklater. >> honors a lost loved ones bucket list. >> 27th of july, 2014.

. >> >> ahead, richard nixon the tale of the tapes. >> >> osgood: president richard nixon actually wanted never dreaming they would ultimately lead to his resignation 40 years ago this summer. after all of this time the tapes are still yielding secrets. this morning mark strassmann shares a few of them. >> in july of 1973, the senate watergate committee heard a bombshell from white house aid alexander butterfield and richard nixon was cornered. >> mr. butterfield are you aware of the installation of any listening devices in the oval office of the president? >> i was aware of listening devices, yes sir. >> nixon's oval office had a secret recording system. the tapes suggested a criminal conspiracy that reached the president. >> in august 1974 as impeachment loomed nixon resigned in disgrace. >> now, 40 years later the same recordings are redefining mix son's legacy. >> and here we have this unique presidential record of 3,700 hours and only around five to seven percent have ever been transcribed and for a historian this is a gold mine. >> luke, an associate professor of history at texas a

been serious allegations by people of good faith and sound intelligence, that the president, richard m. nixon, has committed grave and systematic violations of the constitution. last october, in the belief that such violations had, in fact, occurred, a number of impeachment resolutions were introduced by members of the house and referred to our committee by the speaker. on february 6, the house of representatives, by a vote of 410-4, authorized and elected the committee on the judiciary to investigate whether sufficient grounds exist to impeach richard m. nixon, president of the united states. the constitution specifies that the grounds for impeachment shall be not a partisan consideration, but evidence of treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors. since the constitution vests the sole power of impeachment in the house of representatives, it falls to the judiciary committee to understand even more precisely what high crimes and misdemeanors might mean in terms of the constitution and the facts before us in our time. the founding fathers clearly did not mean that a president migh

richard nixon claiming himself to be very tolerant in the history of homosexuals. that's not the best new thing t. best new thing is the next part of that conversation where president nixon is inform to his utter surprise that ladies in this country occasionally swear. he did not think that women ever swear and listen to his reaction when he find out that they do. hitry. >>. >> you got to stop at a certain point. why it that girls who spear because a man, when he swear, people can't tolerate a girl to swear. girls do not. welthey do not. but, nevertheless, it removes then a man drunk and a pan who swears, people are tolerate that and say it's a sign of masculinity. we all swear. you show me a girl that swears and i'll show you an unattractive person. if girls do swear. >> according to president richard nixon, none of the smart girls swear because it removes something from them. so richard 96 isn't good with the gays even if they suck all the vitality out of society. -se good with drunken men swearing. if there is one thing richard nixon cannot abody. >> you show me

should richard m nixon be found guilty of obstruction of justice? yes. should richard m nixon be found guilty of accusing the -- abusing the powers of his office? yes. should he be found guilty of court?pt of yes. he is a repeat offender. we hear about the grim consequences of impeachment. a government paralyzed, nation disgraced. suppose the house should decide not to impeach. this would have consequences too. they deserve careful examination. refusal to impeach would be a decision as momentous as impeachment himself. -- itself. it would alter the historic relationship of presidential power and the constitutional system of accountability for using that power. our message to posterity would be that mr. nixon had established a new conception of presidential accountability, and his successors could expect to -- thatthat inherit unchecked power. failure to impeach would be the validation of a new theory of presidential knockout ability. many would shrink from this responsibility. shrieking from impeachment arises from remoteness of contemporary presidents. t

richard nixon claiming to be the most tolerant in the white house with the issue of homosexuals. n the world is the best part of that conversation where president nixon is informed that ladies in this country occasionally swear. he did not think that women ever swear, listen to his reaction when he find out that they do. hit it. >> according to president nixon, none of the smart girls swear, because it removes something from them. so richard nixon is good with the gays, even if they suck all of the vitality out of society. he's good with drunken men with swearing, but if there's one thing richard nixon cannot abide -- that judgment of humanity from richard nixon of all people that is definitely the best new thing in the world today. damn it. now it's time for "the last word with lawrence o'donnell." >> on his way back from texas today, the president finally found out why john boehner wants to sue him. >> front and center on capitol hill. >> the fight over immigration and the border. >> this isn't about politics. >> it's all about politics. >> this has gone the way which everything

kennedy, richard nixon, billy graham, and a host of other entertainers. this is a little under an hour. >> ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, welcome. i'm sandy quinn, former president of the richard nixon foundation, now -- the -- now a member of the board, and i want you to meet my successor, who just started this week so give him a good welcome, bill barabal? where are you? [applause] >> in the back. bill, we always have full houses, so you have to get used to just standing in the back. i want you to say hello to jim rogan's wife, is christine, ando welcome christine, and to his all-important mother-in-law, trudy. [applause] >> i want you to know that on july 21, and save the date, mark this down, great program, we have pat buchanan, who joined candidate richard nixon in -- right after he lost the two big elections of presidency and the gubernatorial here in california, and he joined him from the st. louis globe dispatch where he was the achievedder toal writer and he traveled with richard nixon throughout those wilderness years and wrote a book, ju

versus nixon. >> we'll hear arguments in 73-1766, united states of america against nixon and the cross-petition, richard m. nixon against the united states. mr. jaworski, there has been a request for additional time. the court then set additional time of one-and-a half hours, i understand. >> that's correct, sir. >> it'll be allowed to each side and we will not interrupt the argument with any recess. we'll go right through until you're fin

nixon. >> we'll hear arguments in 73-1766, united states of america against nixon and the cross-petition, richard m. nixon against the united states. mr. jaworski, there has been a request for additional time. the court then set additional time of one-and-a half hours, i understand. >> that's correct, sir. >> it'll be allowed to each side and we will not interrupt the argument with any recess. we'll go right through until you're finished. >> thank you, sir. >> you may proceed whenever you're ready, mr. jaworski. >> mr. chief justice and may it please the court. on march 1 last, united states district court grand jury, set it here, returned an indictment against seven defendants charging various offenses including among them a conspiracy to defraud the united states and also to obstruct justice. john mitchell, one of the defendants, was a former attorney general of the united states and also chairman of the committee to reelect the president. another, h.r. haldeman, was the president's chief of staff. another, john ehrlichman, was assistant to the president for economic -- for domestic affairs. th

. >> do your member when you personally felt richard nixon was not going to complete his term in office? >> i knew for sure when i read 23,transcript of the june 1972 tape recording of president nixon's conversation with robert altman. read that shortly after the president released it on august 5. davis served on the house judiciary staff, looking into the impeachment inquiry of president nixon. thank you very much for being with us. we will continue our programming mystery guest c-span3's american history tv focuses on the resignation of richard nixon, august 9, 1974. 40 years later. we will have a chance to look back at the house judiciary committee and the opening statement of 1974. again, that is next sunday on c-span3 at 8:00 p.m. eastern time, 5:00 for you on the west coast. ago, the watergate scandal led to the only resignation of an american president. throughout this month and early august, american history tv revisits 1974 and the final weeks of the nixon administration. this weekend, opening statements from the house judiciary committee as members consider articles of impeach

one that is particularly difficult for me because we are --sidering impeaching a man richard nixon, who has been in my district twice campaigning for me. that i regard as a friend. that is only treated me kindly whenever i have had occasion to be with him. those that would try to demean his or derogate his record. in my opinion, richard nixon has done many wonderful things for this country, particularly in the field of foreign affairs. someday, historians will recognize the contributions he has made. let me say that i have been asked by members of the press, whether my arm has been twisted because i am one of the six or seven republicans that have been undecided. i can answer that with an unequivocal no. the republican national chairman, george bush, in my opinion is one of the most decent, honorable men, and one of the great national chairman of this party. john rhodes, who is the republican leader of the house, has treated me only decently, honestly. sometimes we have had differences of opinion. i can say the same thing about my colleagues on this committee. the general nuisance to my

this is not a case for or against richard nixon. i ran for governor of my state last year. richard nixon did not help me one blessed bit, so i have no reason to feel kindly toward him. >> [laughter] >> secondly, this is the third time in my life i have had to vote on whether or not someone should hold a high office. i think because of the coincidence, it is worth telling you about. the first vote i cast in my life as a public official was when i was the youngest member, newly elected, of the new jersey state senate. the first vote had to do with the seating of a democratic senator. if there's anything i think i know it is new jersey election laws. i listened to all the experts from around the country testify. at that time, you only needed 11 republicans to sign a petition and that democrat would never sit in the senate. we had 16 including me. i was the only republican that voted to seat that democrat. as a result of a long investigation, it proved that i was the only republican right. he was seated. 16 years to the day, i cast my first vote in the congress on the seating o

so richard nixon is good with the gays, even if they suck all of the vitality out of society. he's good with drunken men with swearing, but if there's one thing richard nixon cannot abide -- that judgment of humanity from richard nixon of all people that is definitely the best new thing in the world today. damn it. now it's time for "the last word with lawrence o'donnell." thanks for being with us. >> on his way back from texas today, the president finally found out why john boehner wants to sue him. >> front and center on capitol hill. >> the fight over immigration and the border. >> this isn't about politics. >> it's all about politics. >> this has gone the way which everything goes in d.c., to politics. >> the president asked for more than $3 billion to address this problem. >> we should drop everything until we address this. >> republicans have been for years agitated for more money for border security. >> i can tell you this, we're not giving the president a blank check. >> he's for it, they're against it. >> john boehner is suing the president. >> when is he going to tak

my opinion, richard nixon as done many wonderful things for this country. particularly in the field of foreign affairs. day the historians are going to recognize the he's made.ons that let me say that i've been asked by members of the press whether arm has been twisted because i'm one of the six or seven been icans that have undecided. and i can answer that with an unequivocal no, that the republican national chairman george bush in my opinion is one the most decent honorable men and one of the great national of this party, john rhodes who is the republican treated the house has me only decently, honestly, differences ve had of opinion. and i can say the same thing about my colleagues on this who ttee, the gentleman sits to my left who i regard as friends, except on the golf course who happens views, i e with my think, on this particular important matter. job as i view it aside partisansh considerations to try to be fair, to try to be judicious. to try to see that the president afforded the same opportunities that have been other respondents cases.ent impea

and former white house counsel for president richard nixon, be with us.ill he has a fascinating new book about what really happened in watergate. information that has never been told before. all that and more, but we go back to this big story in argentina. joining me right now to discuss means inof this argentina, we are joined by .asey rackham and sheila and mike mckee as well. what does all of this mean? >> it is not good news, that much is clear. there had been optimism that the two sides would reach an agreement, because for the first time, represented as of these hedge fund holdout bond investors and the argentine government got together last night in the law office of the mediator mediating the dispute. and they spent quite a few hours together yesterday. >> the economy rolled in sort of late in the afternoon, which surprises everybody, but they have a surprising schedule. the trading has been like. >> we have seen a rowley in argentine assets because of the prospect for some kind of settlement. signal of the government showing up was positive in terms of argentina reaching a deal,

president richard nixon to prime minister sato sent shortly after. nixon expressed his disappointment at sato's support for the textilemakers. he said, it seemed impossible to continue the negotiations. at the same time, japanese and american negotiators were locating tugs. the americans used those tugs to successfully press the japanese to make concessions on textiles. as a result, some people criticized sato saying he had sold out people in one of japan's leading industries. one expert on diplomacy said the letter suggests president nixon felt that sato had betrayed him. >> i think the -- this sort of very personal and also at the same time sentimental angry expressed by close ally, by the united states, prime minister sato apparently thought his promise in the talks was just a -- kind of a very convenient remarks to get the reversion of okinawa. but in the talks, nixon, president nixon was really encouraged by his personal promise. japanese government at that time took this letter so seriously, but the problem is that government of japan at that ti

this was the cover of "newsweek" magazine, a smiling richard nixon, he's back the rehabilitation of richard992 it was safe to celebrate richard nixon at the republican national convention. his rehabilitation was a one-man achievement. it died with him in 1994. his historical reputation has slid back to the bottom of the pile. his story is a reminder of how fluid presidential legacies could be, huge it takes for a lasting impression to take hold. to put that new poll about obama in more context, consider this, when quinnipiac took this same poll in 2006, eight years ago, the same time during george w. bush's presidency, the most unpopular president since world were ii was george w. bush at 34%. richard nixon got 17% along with bill clinton who scored 16%. take a look at that same poll now eight years later. president clinton gets only 3% of the worst president ever vote. presumably all these republicans who ranked bush 43 are now scoring obama the worst. that tells us plenty about the overheated nature of today's partisan warfare. when this period does fade into history, how will we remember

the bible verse 29 cents you shall have all of the plans and see to you not unless someone named richard nixon comes along and says there's a couple that we don't like. thank you all. [applause] >> we would be happy to sign copies of the book. in audible conversations >>> booktv is in jackson with the help of cable partner comcast. we sit with the director of the wealthy house museum bridget edwards and her niece mary alice to discuss the inspiration and pulitzer prize-winning book the optimist's daughter. >> i think that it was essential because i take what i know for granted so when i feel i am a judge because my eye has been trained in that experience, so i know where i am and i have a base to see people moving. we are in jackson mississippi at the home. it's a and mark. a writer born in 1809 and died in 2001 she was a writer that one just about every literary prize there was to receive other than the nobel. she is studied throughout the world from publishing in many languages and she wrote some short novels and is best known for her short stories. >> that is the form she most valued so she

but he was very, very careful, richard nixon was trying to set him up for a perjury charge, kept grilling him, do you know whitaker chambers? have you met him? and he kept insisting i do not recall. so long way of answering your question again, no, i have no evidence about the relationship between the two. generally speaking, the most important soviet moles at the time were in treasury, not in the state department. >> could i add a follow up? did he have direct influence on the state department's decision to hand over eastern europe to the communists. >> no, that -- that would certainly be going too far. just because he -- he had no influence after fdr died. both he and morganthal were sidelined. he did have enormous influence during the war, if i could be allowed one small anecdote, in 1944 morganthal put him in charge of producing the occupation currency that the u.s. would use in germany after the war, and the soviets were quite insistent that they be given the u.s. currency plates. naturally there was fierce resistance to this within the u.s. administration, but white wanted to do it.

discover whywill the greatest deception and possibly the most impeachable offense of richard nixon may not become a charge against him. i speak of the concealment of the clandestine war in cambodia. speak of the merits of the bombing, i speak of obvious concealment. we see in the series events the same abuse of power in the same techniques of cover-up employed why the president -- by the president and his associates. like the gentleman from new york, i am profoundly disturbed at the massive cover-up of the facts during and after the secret bombing raid, where 3600 b-52s went over cambodia from march 69 to may 1970. absoluter my consternation on july 16, 1973, when the cambodian bombings were revealed for the first time. i learned on that day that president nixon had misled me, and misled the entire nation, when you said three years prior to that time, on april 30, 1970, years, wehe past five have provided no military assistance whatever, and no economic systems -- assistance to cambodia. the cover-up of cambodia like a cover-up of watergate unraveled by accident. we hear about it in th

. >> it was the point that we heard throughout 1973 and 1974 by then president richard nixon. what's executive privilege? we know how the court decided it was unanimous decision against the president, but explain that point. >> well, part of the working of executive privilege, sometimes k,"ed "deliberative process the idea is that while the president is having conversations with advisors, deciding what to doo and what there has to be some scope of confidentiality to observe the advisors to be candid and not fear publication of their advice will cause them a problem and therefore they will be less than candid. that is the notion behind executive privilege. the court was, you know, considering first, is that a valid notion? secondly, if it does exist, what is its scope and what would out-weigh it in a particular ircumstance? remember i said the president was arguing it. it is a privilege. the special prosecutor was arguing it was out-weighed by obtaining t in evidence for criminal prosecution. >> william rehnquist recused himself from the initial argument and decision. why? >> i

i think that's a little insulting to richard nixon.fully we'll get to the bottom of the e-mail debacle and we'll find out what was said by the senior irs officials and get to the bottom of this truly all of awful scandal. >> got to wrap it there. have a great day. >>> a line of powerful storms spawning some very dangerous weather with folks caught right in the thick of it all. >> i saw it come by. it looked like a big white cloud coming by. you couldn't see. it was that heavy. >> what exactly was it? and is more severe weather on the way? we're live with that story. >>> a new reality show where real life couples get married but here's the hook. they've never seen each other. a team of experts use extreme scientific match making to make sure they are compatible in every possible way and then they get hitched. that brings us to our facebook question of the day. what do you think about this extreme scientific match making and getting married having never met your partner before? would you ever consider doing that with the high rate of div

: in july of 1973 the senate watergate committee cornered richard nixon. >> mr.n of any listening devices in the oval office of the president? >> i was aware of listening devices, yes, sir. >> reporter: nixon's ovaffl oice had a secret recording system. >> play it tough. that's the way they play it. >> reporter: the tape suggested a criminal conspiracy that reached the president. in august of 1974 as impeachment loomed, nixon resigned in disgrace. now 40 years later, these same recordings are redefining nixon's legacy. >> from 1971 to 1973 nixon's tape recorder captured 3,700 hours of conversations at the white house and camp david. in their new book "the nixon tapes," douglas brinkley and luke brick ter revealed why many of these discussions for the first time revealed discussions for the first time. cbs's historian douglas brinkley. good morning. this is a big book. >> the transcripts piled up a mile high. we tried to whittle them down. what mattered in a hi tore cal view and to tell his personality. >> tell us the most important revelation you've seen and hear

i am sandy quinn former president of the richard nixon foundation. thank you.now a member of the board and i want you to meet my successor who just started this week so give him a big welcome. bill, where are you? [applause] he is in the back. [applause] you see bill we always had full houses so you will have to get used is just standing in the back. i want you to say hello to jim rogan's wife christine. [applause] and to welcome her and to his own important mother-in-law charity. [applause] i want you to know that on jul july 21 and save the date, mark this down. going to be a great program. we have pat buchanan who joined candidate richard nixon right after he lost the two big elections of the presidency and the gubernatorial hearing california. and he joined him from the st. louis globe dispatch where he was the chief editorial writer. he traveled with richard nixon throughout those wilderness years and wrote a book just recently called the greatest comeback which is a story of how richard nixon went from the depths of those two defeats to the white house, n

richard nixon lied to us about pretty much everything. and -- i'm exaggerating a little but of course, but jimmy carter comes along and says the same, i will never knowingly lie to the american people again. i tr tried to impress on studens these days what a radical idea that was in the 1970s with a a president who wouldn't lie to us. we were not used to that sort of thing and the fact that he was a southern baptist teacher i think also varnished his credentials and his probity. jimmy carter has many faults and the book doesn't gloss over those. i think i try to treat them fairly and evenhandedly, but no one i think has seriously questioned his integrity. and his moral core and that is one of the great things about jimmy carter. i'm going to close by reading a couple of short passages from the epilogue which was my visit to the planes a year ago june 2 actually. i wanted to go down to hear mr. carter. and to read a couple of quick passages from that epilogue called sunday morning and planes. it is the baptist country. the back roads headi

so richard nixon decided to stop that. interestingly enough the federal chairman of the time head of the federal reserve arthur burns was very skeptical about the avenue is an old-school balanced-budget conservative guy. he was very wary of stopping decoupling the dollar from gold in that way. plus go another dramatic moment as boyd george in the house of commons in 1914. a big year. >> guest: the great thing about british public finance for the 100 years before the first world war before 1914 was essentially they ran balanced budgets. it's difficult to imagine that now for but the whole victorian era in the 19th century. >> host: very stable interest rates. >> guest: very stable and gestures and very stable fiscal policy. one of the key moments in the book was that all of that just went to pieces. only to defeat the kaiser and defeat germany. the british politicians had to go through massive spending and he stands up and says you know this is an extraordinary thing that we have done. we are now going to borrow billions in

richard nixon essentially appeared on national television halfway through bonanza which was a great cowboy show, not really my time but maybe viewers will remember the show and he interrupted the show to say we are not going to allow the dollar to be converted into gold anymore. this in many ways was one of the most significant events, the most significant things have happened in the history of money. it was a very decisive moment where essentially he shot the gold. that is what the term was, where people could not simply come into fort knox metaphorically and say here is $100 or want to get the gold value and that was as a seqhe bad they were trying to fight the vietnam war and pay for the great society and it just didn't work out. there was def a deficit, trade deficit, and people like the french and bad people like the brits were coming to change dollars into gold, and so richard nixon decided to stop that. interestingly enough the federal chairman at the time, the head of the federal reserve, arthur byrnes, was very skeptical about that. an old-school balanced budget conservative guy a

it was very much one of those moments when richard nixon essentially appeared on national television has featured an answer, which is discrete cowboy show. not really my type, but there were many viewers of the show. he interrupted to say we're not going to allow the dollar to become ergot. this in many ways was one of the most significant things to have happened in the history of money. it is a very decisive moment for essentially shut the gold went though. that's the term where people could not simply come into fort knox metaphorically of said $100 i want to get the gold value now as a consequence of the bad problems the american federal government got into with the vietnam war and also to pay for the great society and it just didn't work out in terms of deficit people like the french and bad people in every were coming as a richard nixon decided to stop that. interestingly enough the federal chairman at the time of the head of the federal reserve, arthur burns, was very skeptical about that. he was an old-school balanced-budget conservative guy and he was weary of actually stoppin

out by the committee and by the senate were indeed impeachable, and thirdly, can he prove that richard nixonnew about them and even authorize them? >> watergate, 40 years >> now on american artifacts, part two of our visit to the cia museum in langley, virginia. the curator toni hiley begins in the directors gallery. >> this is the directors gallery. normally the director selects the artist who will do his portrait after he leaves office. we're standing here in front of the portrait of george herbert walker bush, who was director of central intelligence at a particularly difficult time in our history, following tik

ahead, president richard nixon on women's etiquette. >> well all do it. we all swear. a girl who swears and i'll show you an awful unattractive person. >> well you know what i would say about that. >> what could you say? >> what a bunch of bs. more from the newly restored nixon white house tapes and his views from society. my mom is going to e-mail me now. >> you're in trouble. >> i'm in trouble. you're in trouble. >> i'm in trouble. ♪ in the nation, the safest feature in your car is you. add vanishing deductible from nationwide insurance and get $100 off for every year of safe driving. which for you, shouldn't be a problem. just another way we put members first because we don't have shareholders. join the nation. nationwide is on your side. some people don't like added sugar in their juice. so say hello to ocean spray 100% juice. and goodbye to added sugar. i thought we weren't adding any sugar. oh. okay, nobody use these cranberries over here. oh hey there! (laughs) you're that grumpy cat. how about some honey nut cheerios? not even a smile? maybe someone should tell

found out by the committee and the senate were indeed impeachable, and thirdly, can we prove the richard nixonw about them and even authorize them? >> watergate, 40 years later, onight at >> next monmouth college history , professor stacy cordery and her students discuss the ideals and goals that drove feminists and the women's liberation movement in the late 1960's and early 1970's. the class examines several essays published by feminist writers at that time to explore the intellectual underpinnings of the movement. monmouth college is in illinois. this class is about an hour. >> how are we doing? good? ok, awesome. all right, we are looking this week at the origins of the growth of the women liberation's movement in this primary documents freshman course. our task is to understand the problems of the women involved, something about the identification they made with the problems of society and their solutions for them. just to recap -- we began this as a snapshot of the 1950's.